To foster community between UCLA faculty and staff, the UCLA Academic Senate, UCLA Staff Assembly and Campus Human Resources will be hosting the 5th annual Emerging Research Speaker Series and reception on May 12, 2014. There will be a special presentation by Dr. Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, Associate Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture, whose interest and research involves the reuse of Egyptian coffins during economic crisis.
Dr. Cooney’s first book, The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period, was published in 2007, and she is currently completing a biography of Hatshepsut, the 18th Dynasty female king, to be published by Random House in fall of 2014. She produced a comparative archaeology series with her husband, Neil Crawford, entitled “Out of Egypt,” which aired in 2009 on the Discovery Channel and is still airing on Discovery affiliates and streaming on Netflix.
The event will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the California Room of the Faculty Center. There is limited seating so RSVP by Friday, May 2, by visiting the following link: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3335&SecID=3324.
For more information about the Emerging Research Speaker Series and Associate Professor Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, go to the UCLA Staff Assembly website in Related Information.
Campus Human Resources
Email: chr@chr.ucla.edu / Phone: (310) 794-0800
